Gang Quotes - Page 11

• We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

  Dick Cheney

  September 11, Trying, Way

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• These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.

  Wanda Sykes

  Wall, Cutting, Past

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• Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

  Joe Arpaio

  Jail, Chains, Changed

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• Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

  Sam Cooke

  Men, Order, Law

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• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Battle

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• We do know that the Bandido gang in Houston does drug deal. There are a bunch of people being convicted for heavyweight narcotics trafficking from the gang.

  Bill O'Reilly

  People, Drug, Heavyweights

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

  Peter Mullan

  Military, Leader, Arbitrary

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• Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

  Kevin Rooney

  Ties, Addiction, Mexican

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• I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south.

  Patricia Brooks

  Thinking, Getting Older, Columbus

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• Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

  Will Rogers

  Sports, Offering, Politics

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• While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

  Theophilus London

  Cousin, Trying, Internet

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• As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!

  Tom Peters

  Journey, Odds, Yarn

  Free eMail Subscriptions Available at TomPeters.com, November 5, 2010.

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• I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dirty, Boys

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• Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

  Edwin Moses

  Children, Teenage, Pregnancy

  "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.

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• At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.

  Portia de Rossi

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Sound, Band, Four

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• All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Government, Splits, Fool

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.186, Taylor & Francis

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• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  Randall Jarrell

  Dirty, Past, Voice

  Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Use, Spirit, Youth

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

  Bill Moyers

  War, Police, Mind

  "The Meaning of Freedom". Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy, November 15, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy", p. 78, 2008.

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• If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Empowering, Ifs

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• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Favour, Refrain, Boast

  "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Gratitude, Forever, Culture

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• Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.

  Ross Kemp

  Problem, Los Angeles, Areas

  "Ross. Gets all gun-ho. About gangland. In LA". www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2008.

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• I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

  Ross Kemp

  Thinking, Fascination, Gangsters

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